We veered more toward movies about the gambling. Few would argue that Rounders is better than Casino, but Casino is less about the gambling and more about the world in which that gambling takes place Rounders is definitely about the gambling.

A note on methodology: We tried to make sure we emphasized the gambling over the movie. So, with the release of Paul Schrader’s The Card Counter, we decided to take a look back at some of the best movies about gambling. They usually don’t end up with a calm home life upstate, counting their winnings. It’s not fun to watch someone be prudent and cautious, but to see someone constantly putting his well-being on the line in desperate, irrational hope for that One Big Score … well, gamblers in gambling movies are in many ways just like that veteran cop who takes One Last Case before retirement. Movies about gambling have an inherent drama because, by definition, they’re about risk. The real Jack Abramoff seems to be a boring douchebag, and he probably did constantly do impressions of celebrities, but I doubt he was as interesting to watch as Kevin Spacey (who is not interesting enough to save this movie).This article originally ran in 2020 and is being republished ahead of the release of Paul Schrader’s The Card Counter. In movies like this it is important for the screenwriters to feel that they've painted their main character as an irascible, charismatic character, rascally and witty, full of little zinger lines and whatnot. Watching them make their plans and cheat people and be disloyal to their friends and lovers is boring. This movie is about two such men, Jack Abramoff and Mike Scanlon, and they are worthless people that no one with a soul can empathize with or relate to at all. Republican culture is full of sleazy, cynical con artists with big dreams that hinge on manipulating people and ripping them off. They are fakey, boringly executed accounts of real things that happened, they feel like they take a million years to watch, and they really only appeal to people the first time they see one. If you've seen one, you've seen them all. They don't realize that the HBO docudrama is a genre of its own, and they all are directed like this, and have this kind of music and structure and pacing and so on.

A lot of the reviewers on this board are treating this like a real movie and complaining about the style, the pacing, the acting, or whatever. Movies like this, Spinning Boris, Barbarians at the Gate, Recount, bla bla bla.

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